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Horace Walpole's letters [[electronic resource] ] : masculinity and friendship in the eighteenth century / / George E. Haggerty



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Autore: Haggerty George E Visualizza persona
Titolo: Horace Walpole's letters [[electronic resource] ] : masculinity and friendship in the eighteenth century / / George E. Haggerty Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (189 p.)
Disciplina: 828/.609
Soggetto topico: Authors, English - 18th century
English letters - History and criticism
Masculinity in literature
Friendship in literature
Masculinity - England - History - 18th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Horace Walpole's epistolary relations -- Horace Walpole's epistolary friendships -- Horace Walpole on the grand tour -- Strawberry Hill: architecture, friendship, and the erotics of collecting -- Illness and intimacy in the letters between Horace Walpole and William Cole -- Art, politics, and friendship in the letters between Horace Walpole and Horace Mann -- Walpole and women: the Countess of Upper Ossory and Mary Berry.
Sommario/riassunto: Over the course of his life, which spanned the eighteenth century from 1717 to 1797, Horace Walpole wrote thousands of letters to his closest friends and acquaintances. In this study, George E. Haggerty writes about the letters themselves, which span forty-eight volumes of correspondence. In addition to looking at the letters in terms of one of the great literary accomplishments of the century, at least on a par with Boswell's Life of Johnson and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, these letters taken in aggregate offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-ce
Titolo autorizzato: Horace Walpole's letters  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-16352-7
9786613163523
1-61148-011-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456492203321
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Serie: Transits (Bucknell University)